what software do i need to use to make a picture suitable to use as my avatar , i downloaded a program called avatar resizer but its not to good as can be seen in above pic , can it be done on standard Microsoft photo editor or do you need photoshop or something similar , i've got Ulead photo editor but it doesn't seem to have any facillity to resize to avatar size , why cant i use the thumbnails that are shown on the Ulead software ?

Just use paint.

Image -> Stretch & Scew and enter a % of how much want to reduce the size.

HTH

cheers Harry , just having a mess about now

what is the size of the avatar supposed to be please??

last time i changed mine it came out wrong and one of the moderators changed it for me.

Max size is 100x100 pixels - it tells you on the profile page where you upload the avatar!

Ric04vrs - what's wrong with yours? Looks fine to me ... :confused:

I use irfanview for image resizing.

Much better than paint and it's free

Max size is 100x100 pixels - it tells you on the profile page where you upload the avatar!

Ric04vrs - what's wrong with yours? Looks fine to me ... :confused:

it looks fine now but the previous one was done by the avatar resizer and was very pixelly (?) , when i originally started posting on here , the actual website software resized my track day pics down to avatar size ,but then it stopped and i remember i few people being caught out by this with huge pictures as their avatar , i think my new one is the wrong size now though :(

Height is fine (91px) but a bit wide. Now you need to learn about cropping - or use this one:

Height is fine (91px) but a bit wide. Now you need to learn about cropping - or use this one:

cheers for the pic , I couldn't work out how to crop in Microsoft paint:confused: